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Emperor Constantine Byzantine capital
He dedicated a New Rome and called it Constantinople. He choose this spot because it was ideally trade point between Europe and Asia Minor. -
Period: 523 to 527
general belisarius military campaigns
In 532, he was the highest-ranking military officer in the Imperial capital of Constantinople when the Nika riots broke out in the city -
532
Nika Revolt
took place over the course of a week in Constantinople in AD 532. It was the most violent riot in the history of Constantinople, with nearly half the city being burned or destroyed and tens of thousands of people killed. -
537
Hagia Sophia
Greek Orthodox Christian patriarchal basilica (church), later converted into an Ottoman mosque, and now a museum (Ayasofya Müzesi) in Istanbul, Turkey. From the date of its construction in 537 AD, and until 1453, it served as an Orthodox cathedral and seat of the Patriarch of Constantinople,[1] except between 1204 and 1261, when it was converted by the Fourth Crusaders to a Roman Catholic cathedral under the Latin Empire of Constantinople. The building was a mosque from 29 May 1453 until 1931. -
Sep 15, 750
Early Muslim conquests
conquests[3] began with the Islamic Prophet Muhammad in the 7th century. He established a new unified polity in the Arabian Peninsula which under the subsequent Rashidun and Umayyad Caliphates saw a century of rapid expansion. -
Jan 10, 976
Emperor Basil II
Despite near-constant warfare, Basil also showed himself a capable administrator, reducing the power of the great land-owning families who dominated the Empire's administration and military, while filling the Empire's treasury. He captured 1000 enimys and 2 in 3 were blinded. -
Jan 1, 1095
Emperor Alexios I contacts Pope Urban II for military help in the Middle East
It was launched on 27 November 1095 by Pope Urban II with the primary goal of responding to an appeal from Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, who requested that western volunteers come to his aid and help to -
Jan 1, 1202
4th crusade
In 1198,The Pope called for another crusade, and in November 1199 a group of French knights took crusade vows. A treaty was made with the doge of Venice, Enrico Dandolo for aid in reaching the mideast. -
Jan 1, 1378
Great Schism
between the Eastern Church and the Western Church in 1054. The Western Schism, a split within the Roman Catholic Church that lasted from 1378 to 1417. -
Jan 1, 1453
Fall of east Rome
the empire had little to set against the rise of the Ottoman Empire during the late medieval period, and was eventually destroyed with the Fall of Constantinople in 1453. -
Jan 1, 1453
Fall of Constantinople
capture of the capital of the Greco-Roman Empire by an invading army of the Ottoman Empire on 29 May 1453. The Ottomans were commanded by the then 21-year-old Mehmed the Conqueror, the seventh sultan of the Ottoman Empire, who defeated an army commanded by Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos. The conquest of Constantinople followed a 53-day siege that had begun on 6 April 1453
